Tag: Thonet

3 Years of Blogging about Chairs

Cut Out Chair
Exactly 3 years ago I started this blog with a Cut Out Chair.

I posted about two more famous chairs the same day:

Thonet Chair no 18
Thonet No 18 Chair, still a classic and

Thonet No 14

Thonet No 14 Chair, a million seller.

3 Years of Blogging about Chairs

I’d not believed I could bring you so much stuff about (designers of) seating furniture on beforehand. But I did. Thank you all readers and commenters and e-mailers and linkers to Chair Blog! A special thank you to new contributor Polley. You all keep me inspired. Hope to see you the next three years!

I’ve taken the opportunity to decrease the number of posts featured on the front page to 5 In order to speed up loading time.

Thonet no. 25

Found this original Thonet no. 25 at another specialist, now one who repairs cane parts of thonets and other cane backed or seated chairs and boat seatings: Suzandy based in the UK.

Thonet Chair no 14 Remixed by Claudio Colucci

mutant_attack_7

French designer Claudio Colucci‘s Mutant Attack chair playfully remixed original Thonet chairs, but this time the chair become shorter and fatter. Designed for Clear Gallery Tokyo, the Mutant Chair present a sense of humor which most chair lack. The chair is made of recycled materials and available in different variation

Via Design Year Book.

Thonet Chair Café Daum (no 4)

Thonet Chair Café Daum (no 4)

Inspecting old posts here on the blog results in many new posts. Here is the Thonet Chair Café Daum. Still available at Thonet Australia

Designer: Thonet
Finishes Walnut and Dark Oak
Dimensions in mm H 890, D 550, W 420 Seat H 460
Thonets first independent commission in 1849, resulted in this design for the Café Daum in Vienna. Today it is
recognised as the quintessential society cafe chair. European beech frame, beech ply seat. Seat pad an option.

That’s nice. Isn’t it?
However, whenever you are looking for a Thonet chair, you shouldn’t forget to check the sites of the connoisseurs. I checked the German language site of Swiss Thonet specialist Dieter Staedeli. Currently he has this photo of a Thonet no 4:


and has following observation:

The chair Thonet designed for Café Daum which became became the Thonet no 4 later didn’t have additional leg stabilization

Now I’m a bit confused: I see two differences: The leg stabilisation and the form of the seat. Which in the Staedeli photo is made of two round bentwood parts. Also it misses the additional seat-back stabilisator….